Rapper MoneySign Suede has died after he was stabbed in a shower at a California prison, authorities and his attorney said.

Jaime Brugada Valdez, 22, of Huntington Park was found in the shower area of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad State Prison shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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Despite life-saving efforts, he died at a prison medical facility.

The agency didn’t detail his injuries but said his death was being investigated as a homicide.

“They said it was a stabbing to the neck,” Valdez’s attorney, Nicholas Rosenberg, told the Los Angeles Times.

Suede signed to Atlantic Records in 2021 and released his most recent album Parkside Baby in September, the Times said.

The Monterey County prison houses more than 4,000 minimum- and medium-security inmates.

Valdez was sent there after being sentenced in Riverside County in December to serve two years and eight months on two charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun, according to state corrections officials.

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Let the good times roll! Stagecoach returns to the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., on Friday (April 28).

The country music festival will be held from April 28-30. Luke Bryan, Kane Brown and Chris Stapleton will headline each of the three nights. Click here for set times.

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This year’s lineup includes Jon Pardi, Riley Green, ZZ Top, Elle King, Breland, Melissa Etheridge, Old Dominion, Gabby Barrett, Bryan Adams, Niko Moon, Nelly, Morgan Wade, Lainey Wilson, Brooks & Dunn, Parker McCollum, Tyler Childers, Turnpike Troubadours, and Diplo.

Want tickets to Stagecoach? Good news! They’re not sold out yet, although you may have to do a little digging to find tickets that fit your budget. A select number of three-day passes are available on the Stagecoach website for $429; VIP tickets and camping passes are sold out.

Other sites like Ticketmaster, Vivid Seats, Stub Hub, Seat Geek and Ticket Smarter have a select number of passes available. Three-day passes are priced at around $700 and up, but if you act fast, you should be able to find a few passes online for around $629 for general admission ($1,200+ for VIP).

Stagecoach Music Festival 3-Day Pass
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At press time, three-day passes cost $629 at StubHub, $689 at Vivid Seats and $767 at Ticketsmarter. Seat Geek has single day passes left for as much as $923 and up.

How to Watch Stagecoach on Prime Video

If you don’t plan to catch Stagecoach in person, watch the festival live on Prime Video or the Amazon Music channel on Twitch. Prime Video is included with a membership to Amazon Prime. The monthly membership is $14.99 after a 30-day free trial (Amazon offers 50% off for students and qualifying SNAP/Medicaid recipients).

Prime Video (free with Prime Membership)

Besides Stagecoach, Prime Video carries a huge collection of movies, exclusive series, concert specials and just about anything else you might want to stream.

Watch Prime Originals such as Daisy Jones & The Six, Swarm, The Power, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Harlem, Invincible, The Boys, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Fleabag, The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Wheel of Time, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Boys and more.

Prime Video also lets you add HBO Max, Paramount+, Starz, Showtime, MGM+ and other channels to your streaming library.

The Stagecoach livestream is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT on April 28-30. Click here to shop official Stagecoach festival merch.

The Atlanta Hawks are still alive in the NBA Playoffs, and that will force fans planning to attend Janet Jackson’s concert in the city this week to wait a day to see the music star.

The Hawks rallied to beat the Boston Celtics 119-117 in Game 5 of their playoff matchup on Tuesday night, sending the series back to Atlanta for Game 6.

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It means that State Farm Arena was double-booked for Thursday night. The casualty was Jackson’s concert, Live Nation said in a statement following the team’s victory.

The concert was moved to Friday, and all tickets for Thursday’s show will be honored for Friday night. Refunds will be available at the point of purchase for those who are unable to change their plans.

State Farm Arena’s Twitter account posted this message late Tuesday: “SHOW UPDATE: Due to tonight’s @ATLHawks Game 5 win, we will host Game 6 on Thursday, moving Thursday’s Janet Jackson concert to Friday. If you have tickets to the original show date, they will be honored for Friday’s date.”

Doors for Jackson’s show Friday will open at 6:30 p.m. and the concert will begin at 7:45 p.m.

Fat Joe is using his platform for a good cause.

The 52-year-old rapper flew down to Washington D.C. on Wednesday (April 26) as a spokesperson for Power to the Patients, which advocates for health care billing transparency. He spoke to a crowd at Capitol Hill, sharing how his hometown of NYC’s The Bronx has “protected” him throughout his life, and that he’s ready to help out the “voiceless” people in his community in return.

“They know they got somebody here who’s willing to step up and fight for their rights and fight for their families, fight for their health,” Fat Joe is heard saying in a clip shared by TMZ. “This is not a rocket scientist thing. Just show us the prices so we can know whether we want to go to this hospital or if we want to go to the other hospital.”

Fat Joe, a longtime Power to the Patients supporter, is also set to perform at an event sponsored by the organization ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Association on Thursday (April 27), taking the stage alongside fellow rappers Busta Rhymes, French Montana and Rick Ross.

“It’s your right to know HOSPITAL PRICES,” the “Lean Back” rapper captioned a post on Instagram, in which he shared a number of snaps from his trip to the nation’s capital so far. See the post below.

Soulja Boy has been ordered to pay his ex-girlfriend $235,900 stemming from an assault and kidnapping lawsuit she filed against the rapper in 2020.

In court documents obtained by Billboard, the rapper, born DeAndre Way, must pay Kayla Myers $1,800 for “mental health expenses,” while the remaining $234,100 is for “physical and mental pain and suffering.”

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According to Myers’ original complaint, the alleged assault and kidnapping occurred at the rapper’s Malibu home after a party in February 2019 and reportedly lasted six hours. Myers claimed she tried to leave but that one of Soulja Boy’s assistants prevented her from her doing so. She also alleged that Soulja held a gun to her head, issued numerous threats against her and at one point struck her with the firearm.

“Way held the gun to Ms. Myers’ head and told her she was going to die that night and she would not make it home,” the complaint read. “Way next instructed his assistant to take her in the garage and tie her up with duct tape.” 

Billboard reached out to attorneys for Soulja Boy and Myers for comment but did not hear back by press time.

This isn’t the only legal hot water Soulja Boy has found himself in over the past few years. In March 2019, the rapper was arrested for violating his probation stemming from a 2014 weapons conviction. The following month, he received a sentence of 240 days behind bars and 265 hours of community service.

In March, the “Crank That” star was one of several celebrities charged by the Securities and Exchange Comission for promoting cryptocurrencies “without disclosing that they were compensated for doing so and the amount of their compensation,” according to an SEC announcement.

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Metallica’s 72 Seasons opens at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated April 29) with the largest sales week in over three-and-a-half years for any rock or hard rock album. The set bows with 134,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending April 20, according to Luminate. It’s the eighth No. 1 on Top Album Sales for the band.

72 Seasons marks the group’s first original album in nearly seven years, since 2016’s chart-topping Hardwired… To Self-Destruct.

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Also on Top Album Sales, Waterparks notches its highest charting set and best sales week ever – as Intellectual Property bows at No. 2. Plus, Yung Bleu and Prof both log their first top 10s with the arrivals of Love Scars II and Horse, respectively.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

72 Seasons bows with the biggest sales week for any rock or hard rock album since Fear Inoculum’s debut with 248,000 sold (No. 1, chart dated Sept. 14, 2019).

Of 72 Seasons’ 134,000 sold, physical sales comprise 106,500 (59,000 on CD, 42,500 on vinyl and 5,000 on cassette) and digital download sales comprise nearly 27,500. The vinyl sales sum marks Metallica’s largest sales week for an album on the format since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.

Waterparks collects its highest-charting set and best sales week yet as Intellectual Property debuts at No. 2 with 16,000 copies sold. It’s the third top 10 for the rock act. Melanie Martinez’s former No. 1 Portals falls 2-3 with 13,000 sold (down 33%), Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Midnights climbs 5-4 with nearly 13,000 (down 6%) and Morgan Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time vaults 15-5 with 12,000 (up 102%) after a new vinyl edition of the album was released.

Yung Bleu bows at No. 6 with Love Scars II, scoring his first top 10 and best sales week yet, as the album starts with 10,000 sold. Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. falls 4-7 with 9,000 sold (down 35%). Rapper Prof achieves his first top 10 and best sales week with the No. 8 start of Horse (9,000 sold). TWICE’s former No. 1 Ready to Be dips 8-9 with nearly 9,000 (down 18%) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Name Chapter: Temptation slips 9-10 with nearly 8,000 (down 14%).

In the week ending April 20, there were 2.023 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 0.4% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.675 million (up 0.4%) and digital albums comprised 348,000 (up 0.4%).

There were 693,000 CD albums sold in the week ending April 20 (up 0.3% week-over-week) and 965,000 vinyl albums sold (up 0.4%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 10.464 million (up 3.8% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 14.487 million (up 27.7%).

Overall year-to-date album sales total 30.786 million (up 9.7% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 25.116 million (up 16.4%) and digital album sales total 5.670 million (down 12.6%).